same question for you. pro or sport? 30NRR vs 22 NRR If you don't envision using them for rifle or shotgun use where the extra depth could cause issues with a good cheek weld, the higher reduction rating is a good way to go. For general use including long guns, I'd suggest the lower noise reduction...

One of the most popular of the electronic muffs is the Howard Leight Impact Sport. NRR of 22, I believe which is not anything spectacular, but they are relatively low profile, provide relatively quick clamping on the amplification, have and auto-off feature to save your batteries and also have a hea...

I want to start this post by stating that I mean no offense to any LEO / ex-LEO or military / ex-military person when I say what follows. I hold most of these folks in the highest esteem. That said, this instance and others like it -- and the many instances I have seen at gun stores and gun shows of...

There is a reason that NRA classes have a "no live ammo in the room" policy for non-live-fire instruction. Clearly this officer did not follow that protocol. A negligent discharge during a non-shooting safety instruction runs absolutely counter to and negates anything useful he was trying ...

A fixed blade knife that can be easily employed is never a bad idea. Easily employed is certainly a key part of the definition, though. You, with your fitness and awareness levels, may believe yourself capable of assessing the threat and getting to a knife carried on a leg or arm, such as the knife ...

Human beings are inherently lazy. Period. They only become industrious and productive if it beats the alternative. When mom and dad’s fountain of industriousness and productiveness is cut off from their children, THEN the children will be about doing their own industriousness and productiveness. No...

I recognize days commemorating specific people -- birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc..., but I haven't personally worried about extending that to recognition of a whole gender. Maybe I have dodged a bullet in this instance, so to speak, since the whole binary gender social construct I am fam...

The halls of universities have largely become echo chambers for supposedly learned people (with advanced degrees, no less) who KNOW so much that is simply wrong. Sending young people there to learn is apt to have predictable results in too many cases, and only kids firmly grounded in timeless princi...

Your statement of “treating anything that resembles a gun like it is a gun” works fine if we are talking about airsoft, B.B. guns, and even Nerf guns and staple guns, but a plastic training pistol cannot possibly fire any projectile, and so you are overreacting. Without knowing the full context of ...

Not overreacting. Your instructor was a dolt. Two problems with warning shots. 1) Cooper Rules 2 & 4; where's that warning shot going? I don't know and probably neither to you in the heat of the moment. Anytime you don't have control over what the bullet's final stopping place will be, you have...

It seems to me that a gunfight is not a drag race -- and that projectiles flying at ~1,000 feet/second are going to be nearly that much faster than a human being propelled by their own feet. The latter difference is the only one that matters terminally. The effectiveness then boils down to where tha...